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The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful, because a government that does not provide at least basic security will not find itself with any rents to collect.

— Curtis Yarvin

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It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers.

The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.

The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.

Reaction is the reconstruction or restoration of the civilized mind, through political power, from any form of progressive or revolutionary degradation.

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